CaseOval2012

Kelso, WA, USA

I was in my car at a local business waiting for the replenishing crew. Looking at the stars I noticed what looked like a satellite movi

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-05
Where
Kelso, WA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5-6 seconds
Geo
46.147, -122.908 · exact
Slug
oval-over-kelso-wa-2012-b51193
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 38 reports logged in Kelso, WA.
  • This case is one of 427 Washington reports filed in 2012.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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